Guilford Native Makes Film Dealing with Grief of Losing Family Members to Drug Addiction

By Jack Kramer, Correspondent

A Guilford native who wrote, produced and edited a groundbreaking film on recovery high schools that has been widely viewed in Connecticut is launching a new short film about families dealing with the grief of losing relatives to drug addiction.

‘So the short film, Fed Up, was part of the Generation Found project, it just never made the final cut, like so much other material,’’ Jeff Reilly, a two-time Emmy award winning editor/filmmaker said.

“The film (Generation Found) will be available for digital release today (April 4th) and Fed Up is included in the bonus material,” Reilly said

Generation Found was co-directed by Reilly and Newtown High School graduate Greg Williams, a recovery advocate who last year launched the nation’s first big-budget addiction organization with a Westport businessman whose son died of a drug overdose.

The film makes the case that recovery high schools — in conjunction with support programs for teens on nights and weekends — can make a difference when other treatment attempts have failed.

Across the country, there are 36 recovery high schools, ranging in size from 30 to 100 students. The nearest recovery high schools are in Massachusetts, which has five.

But in Connecticut, attempts to fund recovery high schools haven’t made it through the Education Committee in the last two legislative sessions.

For more information on Generation Found or Fed Up, go to this link - https://www.facebook.com/GenerationFoundFilm.